{"id":577,"date":"2011-07-27T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T10:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-07-27T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T11:22:40","slug":"crisis-what-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for the Crisis: Designing for Obsolescence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a week where the Murdoch media empire appeared to lose its power, I came across this video &#8220;The Story of Stuff&#8221;- perhaps the most important &#8220;News of the World&#8221; that Murdoch&#8217;s empire was at the heart of ignoring.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you have seen it, watch it again: it will make you think again about how the world works.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9GorqroigqM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting how, with the launch of Apple&#8217;s Lion operating system we are still seeing  &#8220;Design for Obsolescence&#8221; as one of the main design principles from what many say is the best design company in the world.  It&#8217;s time for Apple (and the rest of us) to re-think design for the 21st century so that we can close the circle, not keep pushing the 99% waste down the pipe.  Designing for Pull has to be a major factor in this redesign philosophy &#8211; and something I will come back to in future posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a week where the Murdoch media empire appeared to lose its power, I came across this video &#8220;The Story of Stuff&#8221;- perhaps the most important &#8220;News of the World&#8221; that Murdoch&#8217;s empire was at the heart of ignoring. Even if you have seen it, watch it again: it will make you think again about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reasons for the Crisis: Designing for Obsolescence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[70,42,41,26,67,5,64,40,37,32,66,50,68,31,72,36,44,51,29,65,49,60,1,57],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-9j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":558,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=558","url_meta":{"origin":577,"position":0},"title":"Emergence and Swarm Consciousness","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"09\/07\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As the honeybee swarming season is ending, I have been reflecting on the four swarms we have caught this season and the phenomenon that some call \"swarm consciousness\". 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